The movie version of a beach read arrives in Amazon's 'Red, White & Royal Blue'

"Red, White & Royal Blue" -- ★ ★ ½ "Red, White & Royal Blue" is a harmlessly enjoyable fantasy rom-com. It's not Nora Ephron or Nancy Meyers, nor is it really trying to be. It's more in line, aesthetically, tonally, emotionally , with one of those early aughts trifles where a normal American girl discovers she's actual royalty or a not-normal American girl starts dating.

López keeps"Red, White & Royal Blue" in a solidly fantastical space. You don't ever quite believe anything you're seeing -- from Prince Henry's ability to go undercover at a Texas bar by simply putting on a baseball hat, to the horrendously fake snow adorning a pivotal New Year's Eve scene. And yet, like a beach read, it goes down easy and has enough surprising wit and edge that makes it a cut above a lot of mediocre rom-coms.

by signing up you agree to our terms of service Have you heard this one before? Of course you have and at almost two hours it starts to wear thin by the end."Red, White & Royal Blue" tries to keep things modern and cool, with its best approximations of CW-style"West Wing"-meets-"Veep" White House and campaign staffers who say things like"you're yucking my yum." Sometimes they work.

And yet these characters also leave a lot to be desired. Alex, who we're told has a working-class chip on his shoulder, wears Le Labo's Santal 33 and throws an annual New Year's Eve party that looks like something Paris Hilton would have attended in Georgetown in the George W. Bush-era. And Prince Henry has a real, heartbreaking dilemma that is given the most minimal, palatable space possible.

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